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Readers who like to take a long bath might like the Thanko's new bath pillow with an arm to hold your smartphone. It holds your back and smartphone nicely to help you to have an absolutely relaxing bath time with your smartphone.

The arm rack can be mounted on any desk or hard surface (bed frames, kitchen/coffee tables, etc.), and the arms are fully articulable in basically all degrees of freedom. The smartphone clamp can accommodate all but the largest smartphones, and the tablet rack can fit almost any-size device in landscape orientation.

The simple clip doubles your average smartphone’s field of view from 70 degrees to 140, pretty much eliminates the need for increasingly frowned-upon and/or outright banned selfie sticks, dials in some great macro shots, and does it all for well under $20.

Japan’s been using those little mini-dynamo generators to power bike lights for decades, and that doesn’t require a whole lot of power. Charging a smartphone or GPS guide thingy is a different matter, but it seems that Thanko has found the answer.

Akihabara-based company Thanko's new simplified projector for smartphone called "Sumaho de Theater" allows you to make your room a home theater at a reasonable price with no bulbs, no noisy fans, and no electricity.

Thanko is now selling binoculars that work with iPhone 5 - called Live View Binoculars for iPhone 5.

With regular binoculars, you have to move your face/eyes closer to the lenses. That position could make you feel tired or make you easily lose the object you want to see. Or if you wear glasses, it's probably not clear what you are looking at.

Japan is a screamingly safe place, but things do of course get stolen. Until now, that has meant using combination or key padlocks of some sort - both of which function on a fundamentally forgettable opening mechanism. Now your digit of choice is the key, and the pattern of your parts the combination.

Thanko invented a cat hand-shaped selfie stick for those who love the paw feeling. It's now available for ¥3,480. Pair it with a smartphone via Bluetooth connection, and it's ready to be used. By pressing the paw part, you can release the shutter of the smartphone camera.

Thanko's new Flexible Arm for Smartphone can hold your smartphone for you. You can fasten your smartphone with a big clip attached to the end of the flexible arm and there is another big clip to make the arm fasten to anywhere the clip gets fixed.

Thanko released Swimming Goggles with Full HD Camera that allows you to shoot videos and photos of scenery as you see it underwater.

Swimming Goggles with Full HD Camera is able to take a 5MP full HD video (1080p) and HD video (720p) covering a 135-degree wide-angle view, and photos (QXGA 2048×1536). It's completely waterproof (IP68) and enables you to dive to depths of up to 3 meters.

A smartphone/tablet charm, which covers 3 functionalities: stylus pen, smartphone stand and screen cleaner, is now out from Thanko.

A screen cleaner made with a micro fiber material is attached to the main part of the charm so that you can wipe finger prints or grime off of the screen. The tip of the charm is a stylus pen that is compatible with both Android and iOS devices. Once you bend the charm a bit, it can turn into a smartphone stand.

Thanko has released an electronic insect bite healer for ¥2,480. It relieves your skin's itchiness and irritation without medical skin cream. It might be magical but so far we're unable to confirm, but whatever - ALL HAIL THANKO!